Moving beyond the data center with data protection
For the last few years many IT organizations have been moving some workloads to the cloud but in my experience, most enterprises have a “no cloud” policy still. That policy is, of course, not quite enforced and they have some cloud services being consumed due to shadow IT or Software-as-a-Service. Most analysis today are predicting in the next few years the “no cloud” policy will be nearly extinct. The problem many IT operations folks have with this is that you can’t outsource responsibility. Now, what exactly does that mean? My favorite example of this has to do with what cloud providers think backup is versus what an enterprise thinks a backup is. A cloud service provider things backup is a way to protect itself from failures they cause, but an IT operations person sees backup as a way to protect the organization against any conceivable. The last thing they want is some VP calling and yelling atRead More →